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They keep global trade afloat – now 400,000 seafarers, stranded since the start of the pandemic, just want to go home
Cristina Belda Font 7 October 2020 https://www.equaltimes.org/at-the-height-of-the-pandemic-they

Cruise ships torn apart after coronavirus sell off
Francesca Street • Published 7th October 2020 https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/cruise-ship-demolition-photos-ali...

Cruise ships worldwide with more than 250 people will test all passengers, crew for COVID-19
Morgan Hines 6 October 2020 https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2020/10/06/cruise-industry...

Cruise lines around the world have committed to testing every passenger and crew member for COVID-19 before boarding, the industry's leading trade group, Cruise Lines International Association, said Tuesday.

Vietnamese cargo ship flooding, limping along coastline, South China sea
Erofey Schkvarkin October 7, 2020 https://www.maritimebulletin.net/2020/10/07/vietnamese-cargo-ship-floodi...

Seafarers have a right ‘to stop working, leave ships and return home’
Anatassio Adamopoulos 05 Oct 2020

The International Transport Workers’ Federation said that it would be coming down hard on those targeting seafarers who speak up against contract extensions .... (login to continue... https://lloydslist.maritimeintelligence.informa.com/LL1134141/Seafarers-...)

Mental Health Support & Solutions: Fake news heightens seafarer anxiety
October 5, 2020 https://splash247.com/mental-health-support-solutions-fake-news-heighten...

Fake news and misinformation about the impact of Covid-19, exacerbated by social media usage, could be seriously impacting seafarers’ mental health and the industry needs to tackle the root cause before it gets much worse.

Workers stranded on container ship to be repatriated
Alex Cooke · Oct 05, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/workers-stuck-on-container-sh...

Some crew members will be able to go home after visits to Palm Beach on Oct. 10 and 23

Seven international workers who have been stuck on board a container ship for more than a year will be repatriated Saturday, according to an inspector with the International Transport Workers' Federation.

Declare seafarers as regular employees, not merely contractual ones
ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO | October 06,2020 https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/344044/declare-seafarers-as-regular-e...

The Makabayan Bloc in Congress, through House Bill 6588, is pushing for job security for seafarers through regularization of their employment status.

Seafarers to have dedicated molecular laboratory
Hanah Tabios October 5, 2020 https://mb.com.ph/2020/10/05/seafarers-to-have-dedicated-molecular-labor...

Key officials of the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) spearheaded the formal commissioning of the PPA’s reverse transcription—polymerase chain reaction (rT-PCR) molecular testing laboratory Monday.

WA ship crew member’s negative COVID test
AAP Newswire 4 Oct 2020 https://www.denipt.com.au/national/2020/10/04/1701542/wa-ship-crew-membe...

A crew member from a cargo ship docked at Fremantle Port has tested negative to COVID-19, West Australian authorities have confirmed.

The crew member aboard the Kota Legit vessel was tested after it emerged they had been unwell while the ship was at sea, WA Health said on Sunday.